Titles:
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Creation of Eve in The Garden of Eden
Hell
Artist: Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516)
Date: 1510-1515
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: 220 x 389 cm (86.6 x 153.1 in)
Current location: Prado Museum (Inventory)
Accession number: 2823
Source: The Prado in Google Earth
http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/prado/
Resolution: 156547 x 89116 (14.0 gigapixels)
Available as a single JPEG at reduced resolution from Wikimedia Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_by_Bosch_High_Resolution.jpg
For more images like this visit:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Very_high-resolution_file_torrents
This very-high resolution image is represented as a collection of
256x256 JPEG tile images, retrieved directly from the Google Art Project
at the highest available zoom level. The file info.xml gives the number
of tile rows and columns and the number of empty pixels at the right and
bottom edges (these should be discarded/ignored during viewing or machine
processing).
This torrent is permanently seeded by my seedbox and also web-seeded. It is the highest-resolution image I've ever dealt with, at 14.0 gigapixels, or 1400 times more pixels than a digital camera photo - but this resolution is more than justified by the intricate detail of this wall-size artwork.
Viewing or processing an image represented in this format requires special
software. Even if the tiles were assembled into a single TIFF image, merely
loading it in a standard image editor like Photoshop would require far more
RAM than most PCs have. Moreover, the JPEG file format does not support
images of such high resolution due to limitations on width and height.
A complete tile pyramid can be constructed by combining and downscaling each
set of four adjacent tiles to form the next pyramid level down, then
repeating this until a single tile is reached. Such tile pyramids are
routinely used by viewing software for very large images, which load the
tiles in view on-demand, and use the different levels to support zoom
functionality. It is also possible to create software which crops
out a portion of the image (a detail) and saves it as a JPEG at maximum
resolution. If you create software like this, please consider publishing
it under an open source license so that others can benefit from it. There
may also be other unanticipated uses for this data.
This data is in the public domain in the United States under the case law of
Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., which holds that a digital reproduction
of a work which is in the public domain in the United States is not entitled
to a copyright. It may not be in the public domain in your nation. See this
page for details:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reuse_of_PD-Art_photographs
If you have any questions or concerns about this data, please contact
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